Qualla: Dunnet Bay Distillery https://qualla.com/dunnet-bay-distillery en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:25 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Dunnet Bay Distillery https://qualla.com/dunnet-bay-distillery Dunnet Bay Distillery: Introduction https://qualla.com/dunnet-bay-distillery/ Two copper stills sit in a small distillery on the Caithness coast, and they have names. The first is Margret, after the co-founder's mother. The second is Elizabeth, after the Queen Mother, whose castle is a short drive east at Mey. Together they make Rock Rose gin - the flagship product of Dunnet Bay Distillery, the most northerly distillery on the mainland of Great Britain. Claire and Martin Murray started the business in 2014 in a village of fewer than three hundred people, and the gin's name comes from the local name for one of its botanicals, Rhodiola rosea, foraged by hand from the cliffs around them.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/t/dunnet-bay-distillery-wp/gfmt-dunnet-bay-distillery-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Dunnet Bay Distillery: Two Murrays and a Plan https://qualla.com/dunnet-bay-distillery/ Claire and Martin Murray are a married couple, and their professional backgrounds were almost comically mismatched for the project they took on. Martin had spent his career in oil and gas, working for TotalEnergies and then BP. Claire came from hospitality. Clearing work on the D...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/m/t/dunnet-bay-distillery-wp/gfmt-dunnet-bay-distillery-rock-rose.mp3 0:06 3 full Dunnet Bay Distillery: Awards and a Second Site https://qualla.com/dunnet-bay-distillery/ The accolades arrived quickly. In 2019, Dunnet Bay was named Scottish Distillery of the Year at the Scottish Gin Awards. The Murrays appointed an environmental manager in 2021, and in 2022 the Federation of Small Businesses gave them Environmental/Sustainability Business of the Y...

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